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Comments posted by Lev from United States, August 21, 2005:
My burns are decent directly after the burn. But it seems that the media gets unreadable towards the end of the disk after storing it for several weeks / months in the protected binder.

Additional information:

Purchased from: meritline.com Date purchased: December 2003 Burnt with Plextor PX-740A at 4x using firmware 1.1. Burning reliability is Good. PC reliability is Good. DVD reliability is Poor. Media color is Silver. Media text is au439mgfc0002. Media package type is Cake Box. Number of discs 50. Authoring/Burning comments:Nero 6.6.0 Does not work on Apex AD-1100WDoes not work on LiteOn LVD-2002

Comments posted by S. Miller from United States, May 19, 2005:
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Comments posted by NIIDeep from United States, May 14, 2005:
Very unreliable burns. And even the ones that do burn have terribly high error rates. Went through 3/4 of a spindle with mixed results. Trashing the rest probably. This is with Plextor PX-716A with firmware 1.06. Firmware 1.07 showed improvement but media has problems after 3.5GB mark. Error rates always goes high around there.

Comments posted by Brian Kennedy from United States, February 12, 2005:
I had used a 25 spindle of the silver faced BeAll 4X before this and had great success. They burned up to 4.6GB with no problems. This spindle of 50 white faced BeAll 4X has been a dissapointment. I've had 3 out of 5 so far having trouble near the outer zone with the disk being only 4GB full.

Once its written though compatibility is good and longevity is good. Just don't fill up the media past 4GB :(

Comments posted by hiob from United Kingdom, November 16, 2004:
TAKE CARE: My burns are very good directly after the burn. But it seems that the media gets unreadable after some days/weeks. If seen this behavior with
the 4x -R types SAMSUNG brand (printable and normals).
I highly recommend to check your disc for readability after some time!

Comments posted by Mike from United States, May 13, 2004:
Have now used all 50 from the cakebox, about half were burned all the way to the last sector, all at 4X, NO coasters or problems. Play perfectly on everything but my mom's old, worn out Sony 530D. Would buy more if I could find a good deal!

Comments posted by mwbooth from United States, March 26, 2004:
This is the media I wish I had started with, burns at 4X in my NEC ND2500A. The back ups have played over 100 times and still going. I purchased 3 in jewel case frome Meritline.com for 1.29 ea. just to try them out, I will be using this from now on.

Comments posted by sacremon from United States, March 11, 2004:
I've burned several hundred of these discs without any reported issues. I really like the inkjet printable variety that has the printable surface all the way to the spindle. I only burn at 2x as that is the highest speed that the A04 in my Bravo will do, but I wouldn't go above that anyway as I want reliable burns for a item that is being sold.

Comments posted by Earl Thurston from United States, March 09, 2004:
There is a white circular ring at the center of the discs, possibly used to cover up text underneath.

I tried burning about 90% of my 50-pack at 4X write speed. 4 DVD's failed to read on my Daewoo DVD player when recorded at this speed. The other 46 DVD's played on the Daewoo player. So, writing at 4X was inconsistent.

Comments posted by J. Alan Wall from Other, January 15, 2004:
Burned about 10 of these out of a 25-pack from Meritline.com so far without a coaster. Burns great at 4x just like the Riteks I bought several months back. No problems burning past the 4-gig mark. Plays fine in all my DVD players. JAW

Comments posted by gigi71 from Other, January 07, 2004:
Media burn at 4x, no coaster; However, play on DVD players will have jerky video around 4GByte mark. If you plan to user it below 4GB mark or on a PC DVD drive, it's ok. Otherwise, DO NOT buy them.

Additional information:

Price: $1.1 Purchased from: meritline.com Date purchased: December 2003 Burnt with Sony DRU-510A at 4x using firmware 1.0d. Burning reliability is Good. DVD reliability is Mixed. Media color is Purple. Media text is No Text On Media. Authoring/Burning comments:Scenarist for authoring. RecordNow DX4.6 for burning. Works fine on Samsung DVD-HD935Does not work on Saba DSA 100E

Comments posted by Rustybolt from Other, December 28, 2003:
Burned at 4x

Comments posted by FulciLives from Other, October 21, 2003:
Been using the 1x-4x Certified BeAll DVD-R discs which I purchased from MERITLINE.COM with a NEC ND-1300A and I've burned about 12 now from a 25 cake pack. All have burned with DVD Decrypter in the 4.1x to 4.2x speed range. Can't beet that! When I use DVD2ONE I set my custom size to 4350MB and then use the classic version of ImgTool to create a ISO IMAGE file thta I then burn with DVD Decrypter. The first two had no READ ERRORS using DVDInfoPro but then I had two in a row (near the middle of the cake pack) that started showing READ ERRORS near the end after the approximately 4.2GB mark. So now I'm trying to keep the size down to no more than 4.19GB just to be safe.

Last one I burned was a home made project using TMPGEnc DVD Author and I did my usual ImgTool and DVD Decrypter job on it and at a final size of 4.14GB (as close as I could get to 4.2GB estimating the bitrate in CCE ... this was a capture conversion from AVI to MPEG-2 DVD) ... anyways ... ran it the final 4.14GB burned disc through DVDInfoPro and NO READ ERRORS.

My NEC came with firmware 1.05 which is what I'm using although there is a more recent official firmware at this time it is 1.07

Comments posted by Tom from Other, August 09, 2003:
Media works perfect @ 4x on every dvd player I tested. When making PS2 backups, a lower speed such as 2x produces slightly better results, because PS2 is very picky.